Posts Tagged ‘fight’

US forces still in fight at end of combat mission (AP)

A policeman stands guard at a checkpoint in Baghdad September 1, 2010, a day after the U.S. military formally ended combat operations in Iraq.   REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ)AP – Even as President Barack Obama was announcing the end of combat in Iraq, American soldiers were sealing off a northern village early Wednesday as their Iraqi partners raided houses and arrested dozens of suspected insurgents.


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3 weeks on run, fugitives arrested without fight (AP)

In this image provided by the U.S. Marshals Service, fugitive John McCluskey is shown being taken into custody Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010 by U.S. Marshals in eastern Arizona. McCluskey and his fiancee Casslyn Welch have been on the lam since July 30th. Both were apprehended at an eastern Arizona campground on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Fores. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Office)AP – Over the past three weeks, an escaped Arizona prisoner and his girlfriend bedeviled the hundreds of lawmen hunting them across the desolate highways and thick forests of the West.


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Pakistan: Lack of terror convictions hurts fight (AP)

In this photo taken Sept. 20, 2008 a destruction caused by suicide attack on Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistani courts have yet to convict a single person in any of the country's biggest terrorist attacks of the past three years, a symptom of a dysfunctional legal system that's hurting the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaida at a critical time. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)AP – Pakistani courts have yet to convict a single person in any of the country’s biggest terrorist attacks of the past three years, a symptom of a dysfunctional legal system that’s hurting the fight against the Taliban and al-Qaida at a critical time.


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Lupica: Now it’s the Mets’ turn to fight

You suspend Francisco Rodriguez without pay for the rest of the season if you are the Mets and tell the Players Association you will have as much of a fight with them as they want to have on this. Just not the kind of stupid fight that started it all.

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K-Rod has torn ligament from alleged fight

Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez has a torn ligament in his right thumb, an injury that will require surgery, the Mets announced. The injury was sustained at some point during the Wednesday incident at Citi Field that led to the closer’s arrest for alleged assault.

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Far from ground zero, opponents fight new mosques (AP)

AP – Muslims trying to build houses of worship in the nation’s heartland, far from the heated fight in New York over plans for a mosque near ground zero, are running into opponents even more hostile and aggressive.

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Rangel says he’s ready to fight ethics charges (AP)

Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., answers questions from the media  on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, July 22, 2010. A House investigative committee has charged Rangel, the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, with multiple ethics violations.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP – Rep. Charles Rangel, who has spent half of his 80 years as a member of Congress, says he looks forward to fighting ethics charges. Other Democrats won’t be so pleased.


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